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--- db4o NOW AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT .NET 2.0 AND "MAGNETO" ---
Just four weeks after Microsoft's release of .NET 2.0 BETA 2, db4o is proud to announce full support of this platform, including complete support for .NET 2.0 generic types via the respective db4o development version 4.5.100. This version is available for immediate download at Download Center for all registered users of our community.
The recently launched .NET 2.0 Beta 2 version includes a Go-Live License addendum to the original End User License Agreement, which finally permits the deployment of ASP.NET Web applications, Windows Forms, Visual Studio Tools for Office-based applications, and .NET Compact Framework applications supporting current and future Windows Mobile-based devices.
In addition, our current db4o production Version 4.5 is ready for Windows Mobile 5.0 (formerly codenamed "Magneto"), announced by Bill Gates in Las Vegas only last week. This includes Compact Framework 1.0 SP3, and also supports the much-improved Compact Framework 2.0. Among other features, Microsoft's new mobile software platform merges the company's Pocket PC and Smartphone platforms into a single OS.
--- INCREDIBLE MOMENTUM FOR db4o V4.5, 200,000 DOWNLOADS, BLOG POSTS ---
It was a masterful effort on the part of our core development team and our user community: The release of db4o V4.5 on May 5, 2005, marked the most successful product update release in our history with nearly 10,000 downloads in just 10 days.
The new version features a host of exciting new functions, such as object-oriented replication, the generic reflector, and the long-awaited graphical user interface to db4o, the ObjectManager. It is available for general download here.
Along with this new release, we have also updated our db4o product information on features and benefits and provided a new datasheet.
Only six months after its open source launch, db4o has now passed the 200,000 downloads mark, far exceeding expectations, given that db4o has a tightly focused target community of Java and .NET developers. What's more, the db4o website has cracked the 100,000 visitors-per-month mark, placing it among the top 100,000 sites on the World Wide Web. According to Alexa.com, about one in every 100,000 web surfers visits our site. The visitors originate from 168 different countries from Albania to Zimbabwe, with the United States, Germany, and Japan leading the charts.
This success is fueled by a long list of news articles (which we've compiled them for you at News Articles) and plenty of grassroots postings, blog mentions, and other means of spreading the word in the community. Though not release related, we particularly liked the contribution of the "10x More Productive Blog" featuring an integrated Mono/Glade/GtkSharp/db4o stack - check it out!
We'd like to thank everyone involved for making this happen, and we encourage you to carry on this incredible community effort to boost db4o's popularity! If you like db4o, please blog, post, or just recommend that your colleagues download and have a look at db4o!
--- CUSTOMER FOCUS: db4o IN BIOTECH AND MEDICAL DEVICES, RESEARCH ---
Bio-medical devices and research are a common area of application for db4o. Part of the reason is the often immense complexity of the underlying object models, which lends itself naturally to object database technology. db4o is particularly popular among bio-medical users in the US, complementing the country's lead in this industry.
The Alfred Mann Foundation (AMF) in Southern California, for instance, runs feasibility studies for bio-medical devices with db4o. The AMF commands a long list of innovations, including Drug Delivery Systems, Glucose Sensors, Cochlear Implants, and Neuromuscular Stimulation. The foundation recently selected db4o for its Microstimulator project, geared towards Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES). Important criteria for selecting db4o were its ability to store complex object structures with ease, its reliability, smooth integration, and zero administration.
Northern California-based Clarity Medical (formerly Massie Laboratories) has based its new state-of-the-art Retcam II Wide-Field Pediatric Retinal Imaging system for infant eye diagnosis on db4o technology. This acclaimed system is used in 8 out of 10 top-tier children's hospitals in the US. The comprehensive database, powered by db4o, keeps track of each imaging session for the patient, allowing for later side-by-side comparison or review of the images and image transfer via LAN or Internet.
The Retcam II implementation is subject of an extensive new case study, written by Amy Tenderich, available for immediate download.
Plenty of academic research institutions rely on db4o for biological and medical research as well. For example, Texas A&M University's Biology Department uses db4o to run simulations of the molecular genetics of circadian rhythms in Neurospora Crassa (a species of fungus.) Graduate researcher Adam Stevenson writes: "We would not be able to model object structures as complex, numerous and dynamic as ours if we had not chosen db4o as our persistence tool."
--- JDJ READERS' CHOICE AWARDS - TOP PLACEMENT FOR db4o ---
db4o has been elected into at least the TOP 12 of ALL SIX categories for which it was nominated in the prestigious JDJ Readers' Choice Awards for 2005. This result emerges after 10,000 votes have been cast, and arguably all Oracle and IBM employees have voted for their company's own products. The categories in which voters deem db4o a leader are: Best Database Tool, Best Enterprise Database, Best Data Access Tool, Best Persistence Architecture, Best Mobile Database, and Most Innovative Java Product. Thank you for this magnificent turnout!
Do you think we can do better? We think so, too. If you haven't already done so,
PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE at JDJ Readers' Choice 2005
Oh, and we haven't forgotten about the .NET guys - but they have forgotten about us?! We could do better with YOUR help on the DNDJ Readers' Choice Awards: cast your vote at DNDJ Readers' Choice 2005.
Your vote helps us to catch even more attention from press and influencers, and helps foster the db4o platform at zero-cost. Thanks!
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With best regards
The db4objects team.
www.db4o.com
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